Sentence examples for breed characteristics from inspiring English sources

Stallion premiums were awarded first by the Board of Agriculture, and later by the War Office, to ensure that stallions displaying the best of the breed characteristics were used for breeding.

There's actually a lot of scientific literature on breed characteristics, intelligence and temperament.

We're looking for relationships between dog brain size and dog breed characteristics.

Frei said a huge reason why he describes the different breed characteristics of featured dogs on-air in such detail is to help educate potential owners before buying or adopting a dog.

This is to ensure selection for the desired breed characteristics, which are now a lighter and more active horse than was seen during the time of breeding for horse meat.

Strong selection for breed characteristics or productivity has created regions that have lost variation due to the fixation of advantageous mutations, or selective sweep regions.

Another breed characteristic is an arched neck with a large, well-set windpipe set on a refined, clean throatlatch.

As for domestic goats, coat color is an important breed characteristic and production trait.

Five digits is a breed characteristic in some chickens, including Beijing-You, Silkies, Dorking, Houdan, and Sultan.

In many breeds of domestic chicken, such as the Silky and Beijing-You chicken, a mutative transformation of scales to feathers on the tarsus, feet and toes, the so-called feathered feet trait (ptilopody), has become a breed characteristic (Bartels 2003).

These BS-nsSNPs have no overlap with that of other two breeds, and may reflect the breed-characteristics.